Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report upon the public health & sanitary condition of Battersea during the year1900
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Table VIII. is a new one introduced by direction
of the Local Government Board to ensure uniformity;
being used by all the Medical Officers of Health throughout
the Kingdom. This gives the mortality for the whole of
Battersea and shows the number of deaths occurring in the
two registrars' districts and the local public institutions.
A column has also been added showing the number of deaths
in each class which were those of non-residents in Battersea.
The classification of the causes of deaths are considerably
altered in the new table, amongst the most important features
being the sub-division of Respiratory Diseases; the classification
of deaths from Alcoholism associated with Cirrhosis of Liver,
and also of Venereal Diseases. In regard to the two latter
causes of death it is exceedingly doubtful whether the mortality
records ever correctly show the true extent to which these
contribute to mortality, and until the law relating to the
registration of deaths is so amended that the death certificate
is forwarded to the registrar direct, instead of passing as at
present through the hands of relatives, sentiment will continue
to prevail and deaths from Venereal Diseases will continue to
be recorded as from Blood Poisoning, &c., and deaths from
Alcoholism will be recorded as from the diseases associating
it, without reference to the primary cause.
TABLE VII.
Deaths of Battersea Residents in Public Institutions.
Institution. | Total. | Group Totals. |
---|---|---|
Infirmaries and, Workhouses. | 331 | |
Union Infirmary,Wandsworth and ClaphamUnion | 280 | |
Wandsworth and Clapham Union Workhouse | 6 | |
Lambeth Infirmary | 2 | |
Lambeth Old Workhouse Schools | 2 | |
Holborn Workhouse, Mitcham | 1 | |
Southwark Infirmary | 1 | |
St. George's Infirmary, Fulham Road | 1 | |
Tooting Home | 38 | |
Metropolitan Asylums Boards' Hospitals. | 36 | |
Small Pox Ships | 3 | |
Grove Hospital | 21 | |
Fountain Hospital | 6 | |
Stockwell Hospital | 1 | |
Park Hospital | 1 | |
Western Hospital | 4 | |
General Hospitals. | 216 | |
Bolingbroke Hospital | 12 | |
Westminster Hospital | 20 | |
St. George's Hospital | 40 | |
St. Thomas' Hospital | 59 | |
Charing Cross Hospital | 3 | |
Brompton Hospital | 8 | |
Hostel of God | 6 | |
West London Hospital | 2 | |
General Lying-in Hospital | 1 | |
St. Peter's Home | 2 | |
Evelina Hospital | 4 | |
Victoria Hospital | 19 | |
Cancer Hospital, Chelsea | 6 | |
Central London Sick Asylum | 1 | |
Chelsea Hospital for Women | 2 | |
Royal Chest Hospital | 1 | |
King's College Hospital | 1 | |
Belgrave Hospital | 8 | |
London Temperance Hospital | 1 | |
Children's Hospital, Creat Ormond Street | 2 | |
London Fever Hospital | 1 | |
Middlesex Hospital | 2 | |
Homoeopathic Hospital | 1 | |
Guy's Hospital | 5 | |
Royal Hospital for Incurables | 1 | |
University Hospital | 2 | |
City of London Chest Hospital | 1 | |
Maternity Hospital, Hackney Metropolitan Hospital | 1 1 | |
St. Bartholomew's Hospital St. Ann's House, Stoke Newington | 1 1 | |
London Hospital | 1 | |
H.M. Prison, Holloway | 1 | 1 |
County and other Lunatic Asylums | 56 | 56 |
640 | 640 |